The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1835951031 ISBN 13: 9781835951033

Publisher: Intellect Books, 2025

Synopsis

The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies provides a comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. Alongside contributions from key thinkers already established in popular music studies, the strength of the collection lies in its inclusion of many new and emerging writers in the field. Therefore, the collection incorporates a wide range of practitioners, pedagogues and academics from an extensive range of disciplines, and thus drawing from a diversity of methodological approaches. These include those that are perhaps more established, such as semiotics, ethnography and psychology, alongside exciting new approaches within popular music, including eco-musicology, religion, intersectionality and archeology. Although previous books have provided an overall of concepts studied within popular music studies, this will be the first comprehensive Handbook of popular music methodologies.

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About the Authors

Mike Dines is programme leader for BA (Hons) Music at Middlesex University in London, United Kingdom. As a musician, writer, scholar and DIY punk publisher, Mike has written extensively in the field of subcultures and punk and is currently Chair of the Punk Scholars Network.

Contact: Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BT, UK.

Shara Rambarran, author of Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era,  is a musicologist and senior lecturer in music, business and media at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research interests include music innovation, virtuality/digital cultures, technology, remixology, music production, audio-visual aesthetics, music/creative industries, music education and law. She is the co-editor of  The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education, and DIVA: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop, and is involved with the Art of Record Production conferences and journal. Shara is also the musicologist for Spotify’s award-winning Decode music podcast.

Gareth Dylan Smith is an assistant professor of music at Boston University. Gareth plays drums with Stephen Wheel, Black Light Bastards and Austina Lee. His research interests include drumming, musical intimacy, eudaimonia and punk pedagogy. Gareth’s album, Permission Granted and a reimagined Beethoven’s Pathétique (with Austina Lee) are on Anthrophonic Records.

Contact: College of Fine Arts School of Music, Boston University, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 207A, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1835951031
• ISBN 13: 9781835951033
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 752
• Editor: Dines Mike, Rambarran Shara, Smith Gareth Dylan